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by hyperliner 4374 days ago
Is it weird / bad karma to call this "Lotus"?
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mrinterweb 4374 days ago
You could make an example application called "Notes" with Lotus.
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rbanffy 4374 days ago
Or a spreadsheet and call it "123"...

Or even worse - a webmail app called "cc:Mail".

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drivers99 4374 days ago
Considering that IBM owns the trademark for "Lotus" for software products, I suspect there will an issue with that at some point.
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